Machine for barbing and winding wire



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MACHINE IOR BARBING AND WINDING WIRE. -No. 366,245. Patented July 12,I887.

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MACHINE FOR BARBING AND WINDING WIRE.

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MACHINE FOR'BARBING ANI) WINDING WIRIL. No. 366,245. Patented July 12',1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (lemon.

FERDINAND PHILIPS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR BARBING AND WINDING WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,245, dated-July 12,1887.

Application filed March 22, 1886. Serial No. 196,088. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND PrIILIrs, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines forBarbing and Winding Wire, of which the following is a full and truedescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification.

My invention relates to machinery for barbing or indenting wire to beused in the manufacture of wire nails, and winding the same into coilsas it comes from the barbing-rolls.

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction of thebarbing mechanism and improve its mode of operation, and to unite withit winding appliances which will coil the wire into compact coils as itleaves the barbing-rolls, which coils may be easily withdrawn from thewindingreels. These obj ectsI attain by means of the devices hereinafterfully described, and illustrated by the.

drawings, which show abarbing and winding machine embodying myinvention, and in which--* Figure l is a side elevation of one of mybarbing-rolls; Fig. 2, a plan or edge View of the same; Figs. 3 and 4,sections of right and left handed rolls, taken through the line a: m,Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section of a round wire with inscribed andcircumscribed squares. Fig. 6 is a section through the barbing-roll at yy, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a central side elevation of my barbing-machine;Fig. 8, a section through the line of contact of the barbing rolls whenarranged to make six rows of indentations. Fig. 9 is a side elevation ofmy barbing-machine with its winding-reel attachment; Fig. 10, a frontview of thesame. Fig. 11 is a side elevation of the part of thewinding-reel which is permanently attached to the hub. Fig. 12 is aerosssection through the reel and its bearings, showing the removablesection of the reel. Fig. 13 is a central crosssection through the hubof the reel, showing how it is attached to the shaft; and Fig. 14 is anend view of the reel and its shaft with its retaining-nut and washerremoved.

A A A A'and are the barbing-rolls, which, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to7, are especially adapted to indent round wire with four rows ofbarbs,in character and form like those of myimproved nail for which Ifiled an application for Letters Patent September 25, 1885. Thearrangement of rolls shown in Fig. 8 is adapted to indent the wirewithsix rows of indentations. I provide a roller, A or B, for each row ofindentations which it is wished to make along the wire. WVhere, forinstance, four rows are desired, four cylindrical rollers, A, are to beused, each having one of its edges faced off at an angle of forty-fivedegrees, so as to leave a 'cone-face, c (1, Figs. 2 and 6, the maximumbreadth of which should not be greater than the length ofthe side of asquare inscribed in the round wire to be barbed. In this cone-face theteeth of the roll are out, two of the rolls being cut right-handed andtwo left-handed, the shape and form of the teeth being of course theconverse of the indentations desired upon the wire. I prefer to make thefaces an of the teeth substantially in a plane passing through the axesof the roller, and to bring the face it gradually to the surface of thecone. The depth of the teeth should not, where four rollers are used,exceed that at which the line 6 f, Fig. 6, is equal to the side of thecircumscribing square around the round wire. (See Fig. 5.) Where sixrows of indentations are desired, six rollers are used, four havingtheir edges faced off at an angle of thirty degrees to their sides, andtwo-the central ones, B B, Fig. 8--having plain cylindrical surfaces,the teeth in each case being out or planed out across and parallel tothe working-faces of the rolls, and in case of the six rollers beingused the faces of the rolls should be on their surfaces not broader thanthe side of a hexagon inscribed in the section of the round wire, andthe breadth of the teeth at their bottoms should be not greater than theside of the circumscribed hexagon. WVhere more rows of indentations arerequired, the chamfer of each roll corresponding to each row ofindentations and the breadth and depth of the teeth may easily beascertained, it being of course evident that my plan of providing aseparate roller for each row of indentations is especially and bestadapted to those cases where the number of rows is divisible by two. Inall cases I prefer to bring the tapering side at of the teeth to thesurface of the cone-face of the roll a little in front of thenextsucceeding tooth-face n, so that a portion of the cone-surface g h,Fig. 1, is left. This gives a desirable bluntness to the teeth andinsures uniformity in the depth of the indentations. The barbing-rollershaving been prepared, as described, are then secured upon two shaft, 0and O, the right and left handed rollers of course facing each otherupon the same shaft, and the two clamped tightly together between theshoulder is and the nut 43. (See Fig. 7.) The bottom shaft, 0, issecured in bearings 0'0 formed in or securely attached to a frame, E.The shaft 0 rests with its end farthest from the rollers in the bearings0 which is hinged to the frame E at a point, D, situated in the linewhich passes through the contact-points of the upper and lower rollersand of the pitch-line of the teeth of the spurwheels I Z, .by means ofwhich the shaft 0 is driven by the shaft 0. The forward end of the shaft0 isprovided with a bearing, 0, which is allowed to move vertically inthe frame E, and is held down, so as to bring the upper rollers inproper proximity to the lower rollers, by means of a screw, F, passingthrough the upper part of the frame.

On the bottom of the bearing 0 a spring, a, is secured by means of ascrew, H This spring is compressed between the bearing 0 and the bearinga when the rolls are brought together, and lifts the upper rolls whenthe pressure is released. The wire is fed to the barbing-rolls through aproperly-shaped tube, G, (see Fig. 9,) and in passing between themreceives, of course, the indentations corresponding in form anddimensions to those of the teeth on the rollers. 7

Upon the shaft 0 is secured a pulley, H, which drives a shaft, J, bymeans of a pulley, H. a frame, E, which sustains a winding-reel, M, theshaft of which is driven from the shaft J by means of a suitable trainof gearing, such as indicated at K, Fig. 10. This reel is situatedimmediately in front of the barbing-rolls and turns freely upon itssupporting-hub N, and is secured to the driving-shaft L by being clampedbetween the collar T and the collar T, washers SS being interposedbetween the ends of the hub and the collars, and any desired degree ofcompression being obtained by meansof the nutV meshing with thethreadedend Z of the shaft L. The collar T moves freely in the direction of thelength of the shaft L, but is prevented from turning upon it bya key, t.(See Fig. 13.) Forming a part of the same casting as the hub N, orpermanently secured thereto, is the reel-face Oand the flange Fig. 12.Anumber of projections, 0 are formed in the face Oof the reel, andtapering gradually from the rim 0 to the outer edge of the reel-face.Into'the inner face of the reel,

and on the opposite side to the flange O, fits an annular flange-rim, PP, which is secured in place by means of a bayonet-clasp, P, Fig. 12, orany other convenient fastening. The flange P of this annular rim hasholes or open- This shaft J is secured in bearings upon ings, throughwhich wedges R are introduced, which extend across the face 0 of thereel, graduallytapering as they approach the rim 0 The actuating-gearingof the shaft L isso proportioned that the reel-face 0 shall normallymove with a speed as great or a little greater than the speed of thefaces of thebarbing-rolls A, so that the wire between the barbing-rollsand the reel will always be under some tensional strain, andconsequently will be wound into a tight and compact roll or coil, thefrictional attachment of the reel to its drivingshaft allowing it toslip thereon, so that its actual speed will be the same as that of thebarbing-rolls. When the reel is wound with wire, it is removed from itssupportingframe E, and the wedges R R are drawn, thus relaxing the gripof the coiled wire upon the reelface. The flanged rim 1? P is thenremoved. The coil of Wire now rests upon the tapering projections 0only, and can therefore be readily withdrawn outwardly over the inclinethus presented. The coiled Wire withdrawn in this way may be at oncetaken to the nail-machine, and the reel replaced on its frame E, andrewound with wire.

In describing the form and construction of my barbing-rollers I havespoken of the wire as being round, as is most usually the case. It isevident, however, that the rolls are well adapted for use on wires ofvarying shape in cross-section, the essential feature of the rolls beingthat there should be a separate one for each row of indentations, andthat the teeth should be out directly across surfaces formed on therolls parallel to the angular position of the indentations, relative toeach other.

While I prefer to clamp the winding-reel upon its driving-shaft, asshown and described, it is of course evident that it may be given thesame capacity of maintaining a steady and constant pull upon the wire bymeans of a properly-adjusted friction-clutch situated in any part of themechanism which drives it.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a machine for barbing wire, thecombination of parallel driving-shafts with barbing-rolls correspondingin number to the rows of indentations to be produced on the wire, andhaving their teeth formed in surfaces corresponding in angular positionto that'of the rows of indentations to be formed.

2. Barbing-rolls constructed and adapted for use substantially asspecified, having their teeth formed with faces at substantially in aplane passing through the axes of the roll,and their faces a taperinggradually upward.

3. Barbing-rolls constructed and adapted for use substantially asspecified, having their teeth formed with faces m substantially in .aplane passing through the axes of the roll, their faces a taperinggradually upward, and crowns g h,consisting of aportion of the originalroll-surfaces.

4.. In a machine for barbing wire, the com biuation with paralleldriving-shafts, of barbing rolls or disks having teeth formed in theirperipheral edges, and adapted to be secured in pairs or sets upon thedriving-shafts so as to form dies for barbing the wire,substantiall y asshown and described.

5. In combination with barbing mechanism, the winding-reel havingdriving mechanism adapted to give the reel su rface a normal speedslightly greater than the speed of the harbingroll surface said drivingmechanism having a yielding frictional connection with the said reel,substantially as specified.

6. A wire-winding reel having, in combina'

